Dore

Inside the image.

A square cover combines a rough stone doorway with a fantastical seascape. The doorway fills most of the frame: irregular grey stones form thick walls at the left and right, with a dark, uneven lintel across the top. Through the opening, blue sky and clouds give way to green-blue water. The stonework remains visible around the scene like a heavy frame, and the water appears to surge forward through it into the lower foreground.

A bright pale sun or orb glows in the upper-left part of the sky, surrounded by a soft pinkish-violet halo. White clouds cluster across the blue, including a large cloud at upper left and smaller formations towards the centre and right. A hazy blue shape beneath the clouds could suggest a face or figure, though its outline is ambiguous. The distant water is green and calm by comparison with the large dark teal wave rising across the lower right and centre. White foam traces its curling crest and breaks against the left side of the opening. Two orange-brown fish with dark markings swim in the churning water: one near the centre, above the wave, and another lower down towards the left. A much larger, dark-eyed fish-like form occupies the bottom-right foreground, partly cropped by the edge; its rounded eye and patterned, brown-green surface are visible beneath the water and foam.

The palette shifts from cool greys and muted green stone to saturated sky blue, turquoise water, and bright white foam, with the fish adding warm amber and ochre accents. The glowing orb and patches of foam provide the strongest highlights. The image has a layered, assembled quality, bringing together photographic-looking stone and water with dreamlike sky and fish imagery. Edges and surfaces vary in clarity, and the waves overlap the doorway and lower border, making the scene feel as though it is breaking out of its frame.

White lettering is integrated into the composition. “BOB DELYN a.t. BELLION” runs vertically down the left side over the stones in tall, narrow capitals and lowercase letters. The larger word “dore” sits across the lower centre in pale serif lettering, partly over the water and in front of the wave.